Saif-ur-Rehman Mansoor

Saif-ur-Rehman Mansoor (died January 2008) was a senior Taliban commander during the Afghanistan War.

Biography
Saif-ur-Rehman Mansoor was the son of a Mujahideen commander of the Soviet-Afghan War, and, while he was poorly educated and had limited vision, he was a pious and emotional man. He was deputy commander of the Taliban garrison at Kargha before the US invasion in 2001, and he fled to Pakistan following the deposition of the Taliban. By March 2002, he rallied 1,000 fighters, and he vowed that the fight against America for the supremacy of Islam in Afghanistan would continue until his last breath; he commanded the Taliban forces at the Battle of Takur Ghar. In May 2002, his men's destruction of an American helicopter carrying seven soldiers made him a hero. Mansoor went on to become masool in Pakistan's Sarhad Province, and he also commanded Khost and Paktia Province's Taliban insurgencies. He was killed in action in Parachinar in January 2008.